Join Impact Hub Birmingham

Memberships for Children

Join Impact Hub Birmingham

Memberships for Children

It’s time to start seeing our children as active citizens and changemakers, not citizens-in-waiting.

Impact Hub Birmingham Children’s Membership not only gives your child access to our high-quality weekly childcare provision alongside your own membership, but it positions you and your child to inspire, influence, and shape the conversations, interventions, events, and initiatives that aim to build a better future for children in our city.

The Children's Membership forms an important part of our #RadicalChildcare programme, an initiative to explore, imagine and invest in bold new possibilities for the future of childcare.

Children's Membership can be purchased in conjunction with any other Impact Hub Birmingham membership at an additional £20+VAT, per child. To sign up, choose the membership plan that suits you and your child's membership will be activated at your induction.

About Hub Crèche

Every Thursday

Our current crèche provision is held weekly on a Thursday from 10am - 1pm. Parents, guardians or carers must stay on-site at Impact Hub Birmingham for the duration of the session.

Open To Inclusive Practice

Whilst practitioners and playworkers are there to oversee the children's welfare and provide additional support and nurture each child’s overall development, all infants are encouraged to play and socialise inclusively, no matter what their age, developmental stage, or learning ability. We are a member of Children's Quarter and with their support we strive to be bendy, stretchy and open to inclusive practice... so talk to us!

Anything But A Drop-off Service

Impact Hub Birmingham’s on-site crèche facility offers a high quality, safe, stimulating, all-encompassing provision to babies (6 months+), toddlers and pre-schoolers which offers free-flow creative play and additional structured activities, all led by experienced artists and early years practitioners.

Themed Sessions

Each week’s session is themed with activities - such as den building, planting - or a particular holiday, such as Jamaican Independence Day. We even celebrate each child’s birthday. Healthy snacks are provided for the children but we do ask parents to bring additional snacks or a small lunch in addition to nappies, wipes, water and or milk and a change of seasonal clothing.

Meet The Team

James Marshall

Early Years Practitioner

James Marshall is an early years educator and specialist who has worked in Walsall schools since 1996 to 2014. His main subject is EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) but he has also worked in Key Stage 1 & 2 as a Supply Teacher in the afternoons from 2012 /2014. James still teaches privately helping children to be more confident and there is never a wrong answer so don’t be afraid to put up your hand.

In his spare time James is a very good cook. Cooking for up to 100 people at a time for parties and very special occasions. He’s tiramisu is the best in town!

Sabrina Sutherland

Early Years Practitioner

Sabrina Sutherland is 28 years old and adores children. She began working with children at a young age, helping to babysit brothers and sisters, and has been working with children ever since.

She completed her Level 3 qualification in Early Years, aged 18, at Birmingham College of Food. Following this Sabrina went on to work at Priory School, Edgbaston, where she fulfilled her dream of working professionally with children within the nursery and then she would go on to run the after school club with children of all ages. Sabrina later completed her foundation degree in Early Years at Birmingham City University, before attending Newman University where she gained her degree in Early Childhood Education and Care.

Emma Bowen

Playworker Wizard

Emma is an artist, educator and producer of arts learning programmes, working with children of all ages across Birmingham for over 12 years. She is currently undertaking a Masters Degree at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) looking at creativity in education in early childhood, and has a particular interest in child centred learning. Emma loves playing with clay and spends too much time in the pottery, when she isn't there she is likely to be on a long dog walk in the woods.

What parents say about children's membership

Cheryl Jones

I couldn't have asked for a better first experience of childcare. Being just downstairs during those first weeks made it so much easier to relax, with the added bonus of being amongst fellow working parents going through the same thing - I've got a whole new support network now.

The creche has enabled me to increase my work hours in a way that's affordable. The hub is a fantastic work space with great facilities. It's probably the most efficient three hours I work all week. I've met some brilliant people and have even started some new collaborations.

Long may it continue! It would be amazing to have a facility like this that ran everyday. Imagine if most employers could offer something along these lines, it could open up so many opportunities for parents of pre-school children. I love the work that FAMALAM are doing with the radical childcare project. I hope that it can help parents and employers like me to find ways to provide

Amahra Spence

Joining Impact Hub has been a saving grace! It has given me space to steady myself back into work since becoming a mom, particularly at a time when it can be quite isolating as a new parent. As part of the community here, I've been able to develop new partnerships, widen a network of peer-support, connect with and learn from other members, attend Hub events and dedicate time to my practice as an artist, project manager and creative producer.

My son LOVES the whole team and looks forward to coming every week. The way the staff care for all the children is so evident. I've been able to genuinely witness him grow in confidence, learn new skills and make friends. All while I work downstairs (great comfort for me having that proximity to adapt to the working parent life)!!!! As a result, my son has made the transition to nursery part-time with such ease. I am certain this wouldn't have been possible for either of us were it not for the creche.

Hub has been a very comfortable place to bring my young son from the very beginning, something I don't take for granted. I hope this continues to grow and that we see it established in workplaces as normal. It's so helpful to know an option like this exists. Fellow parents, I cannot recommend enough!

Jo Gane

Impact Hub gives me a moment of head space in a crowded week. It's time to sit and gather my thoughts, drink a good hot coffee and write a list - then get some stuff ticked off the list... in daylight hours, in the light that streams into the co-working space through the beautiful windows, without the interruptions of a fractious three-year-old or cries through the baby monitor. I'm confident that baby Minnie is in caring hands in the creche, learning how to interact with carers and her peers in a safe and happy environment. It has set her up well for my return to work and helped her confidence to grow in preparation for going into longer spells in childcare when I return to work properly in September. It has made it possible for me to direct, developed in Birmingham (developedinbirmingham.com) and produce an exhibition of my work, A White House on Paradise Street at BOM (paradisestreet.co.uk)